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- ι668Ἰσότης φιλότηςequality amityThis [is] a gnomic [statement] showing that equality encompasses amity.
- α2539Ἄνθρωπος φιλοπραγματίαςmeddlesome manIn reference to a busybody.
- κ2550Κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλωνthe property of friends is common propertyThey say that Pythagoras the philosopher persuaded those who associated with him as students to pool their property -- hence the proverb.
- α4643Ἄφρακτος φίλωνunguarded by friends[Meaning] not be-fenced and be-walled with friends because you left them behind deceived.
- χ157Χαῖρε φίλον φῶςfarewell dear lightWhen a woman wants to misbehave and puts out the lamp, this, they say, is what she says. But others [specify] a bad woman, others an old one.
- μ875Μηδέν ποτ' εἴην ἄλλο πλὴν θεῷ φίλοςmay I never be anything other than a friend to godTo the extent that I am numbered under his sphere [lh=cis] and his power. But lh=cis is a word for cessation.
- ε1091Ἐναγῆ φίλωνaccursed of friends[Meaning] he who is never held responsible by his friends for a cause which does not appear, but who is pure. We [the chorus] ask not to make [him] dishonored in words, but to …
- κ2549Κοινὰ τὰ τῶν φίλωνthe property of friends is common propertyTimaeus says in his 9th [book] that this [proverb] originated in Magna Graecia, in the period when Pythagoras persuaded those settling there to hold property undistributed [to private owners]. Menander uses the proverb in …
- ει340Εἰ φίλου χρῄζεις ὑπουργίαςif you need a friend's services[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to those with a noble spirit. For when Antisthenes was ill Diogenes said something like this before handing him a dagger.